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100 years ago, the Social Gospel movement pushed to improve workers’ lives – but also to promote its vision of Christian America

President Donald Trump has praised the Gilded Age, which he believes was a time of immense national prosperity thanks to tariffs, no income tax, and few regulations on business. Similar to today, the ...
The Real News Network

This new model for worker organizing could supercharge today’s labor movement

Labor’s decline over the past half century has devastated working-class communities, undermined democracy, and deepened the grip of big business over our work lives, our political system, and our ...
The New York Times

Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?

Mr. Loomis is a historian of labor who writes extensively about unions, politics and workers. This is a most unfortunate Labor Day for labor. The labor movement has taken it on the chin repeatedly in ...
ProPublica

She Was a Key Voice of the 1990s Labor Movement in Nike’s Indonesia Factories. Today She Relies on Donations From Abroad.

The article was produced in partnership with The Oregonian/OregonLive. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights ...
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100 years ago, the Social Gospel movement pushed to improve workers’ lives – but also to promote its vision of Christian America

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Immigrant children from Central Europe at a settlement house in St. Louis. Thomasa.nagel/Wikimedia Commons President Donald Trump ...